FOR YEARS — too many years—goods vehicle drivers have been dubbed, with their vehicles, as anti-social. Operators have been...

I .AIN's Euro-lorry is looking ever smaller, with word from Westnster now suggesting that the 40-tonne maximum proposed by...

YLAND TRUCKS' plans for i00 redundancies met with . ong opposition last week len 8,500 workers at its Leyid and Chorley plants...

TRANSPORT Secretary David Howell told Guildford Women Conservatives last week that his White Paper proposals are "strongly...

DON'T LET a change to gross weight vehicle taxation be an excuse for increasing operators' tax bills. That is the strong...

THE HAULAGE industry has been enjoying some additional business as a result of the continuing dispute between British Rail and...

TRANSPORT Secretary Davit Howell does not agree that lorn drivers should be paid extra be cause tachographs are fitted t4 their...

THE SHAKY industrial relations of North East England have tit stony ground again, with drivers now threatening to take...

'HE WORST is over for British c he Economist Intelligence Unit Dr increased output this year still Now that most manufacturers...

0 DECISION has yet been :ached on whether to split the oad Transport Industry raining Board so as to create eparate boards for...

SEVEN of Shell UK's smaller oil distribution depots are to be closed by the end of 1983, but customers are unlikely to suffer...

A NEW TOLL system announced by the Austrian authorities for some of their main transit routes has caused a storm of protest...

AN EIGHT-tonne gross vehicle weight limit in London would compel a glass manufacturer to move out of the London area, the Wood...

NO DECISION has yet been taken whether the office of Fair Trading will ask the Monopolies and Mergers Comilssion to investigate...

PLANS for a 7.5-tonne-weigl limit in the London Boroughs 4 Enfield and Barnet have bee revived by the Greater Lando Council,...

IE CONSTRUCTIVE answer to environmental lorry problems lies Paris, where a second ring motorway is being built, Road Haulage...

LOCAL COUNCILS will have to be offered more funds to meet the effects of heavier lorries, the London Boroughs Association has...

A TELEVISION campaign to encourage greater use of seat belts is being run until February 21 in advance of the compulsory...

THE GREATER London Council was being asked this week to oppose the White Paper proposals for heavier lorries. Transport...

"A DISASTER would hit the newspaper and magazine wholesale industry if a lorry ban were introduced into the Greater London...

SERIOUS SAFETY proble would arise in the event a lorry ban in the Greater Lon( Area, according to the Natio Federation of...

RRY deliveries to 60,000 shops and 8,000 factpries, and the sering of 2.7m homes in the Greater London area underlines our...

OUSTRY in cities should try to mge deliveries outside peak • iods during the present :es of rail strikes, Transport :retary...

bans and controls, Richard Turner, controller of planning and traffic services for the Freight Transport Association said at a...

EATON'S axle division in the USA has introduced a lightweight all-wheel-drive system for medium and heavy lorries. It is known...

THE MASS movement of powders and bulk solids will be featured by specialist manufacturers and suppliers of plant, systems and...

THE Department of Energy hi awarded the Atomic Energy R search Establishment at Harm a further Elm for a three-ye. extension to...

DESIGNED for use with most forms of commercial vehicle from tippers to forklift trucks, the STE Rear Guard Plus has been...

FOUR-MODEL range of atsun's four-wheel-drive ehicle, called the Patrol, is now vailable in this country. The Patrol, which has...

increase European sales of Dodge commercials (CM December 19, 1981) by naming, dealers to handle sales in the Benelux...

The new model will have a one-tonne payload capacity and will be assembled at the Ford plant at Port Elizabeth in South...

THE INDUSTRY has launched a new campaign to retain new bus grant, in the face of all-roUnd Government assaults on...

HESTAIR-DENNIS, the National Bus Company and Duple Coachbuilders are jointly developing a new luxury coach to help meet the...

THE MONOPOLIES and Mergers Commission investigation of the bus industry is unlikely to be published before Easter, and the...

SOUTH YORKSHIRE's chea fares policy is under a cloud doubt, but members of tt county's ruling Labour gnu. are trying to...

OLSEN BROTHERS, of Stroo Kent, has had its operatoi licence formally revoked by ti South Eastern Traffic Commi sioners and has...

HE LATEST in the crop of new oach chassis to be available in Htain from October is the Scaia K-Series, reports NOEL MIER. It...

A COPELAND, Cumbria councillor has criticised Cumberland Motor Services for "wasting money" in its bus battle with a Whitehaven...

4LTHOUGH there is no specific exemption from the tachograph or Myers' hours regulations for vehicles used for non-commercial...

WALLACE ARNOLD has withdrawn its West Country coach services to and from London, leaving the field to National Express and...

DUPLE Coachbuilders reports an improvement in its fortunes. Reduced demand for coach bodies last year cormielled the company,...

DECISION has been reserved on the first attempt by an independent to gain licence authority to operate a stage service within...

LAUNCHED in September 198( Bexhill's community bus ha now carried its 50,000th pas senger. The 16-seat Reeve-Burges Reebur bus...

PETER WALTERS has been promoted to managing director designate of Atlas Express Ltd. He was formerly on the operating board of...

Drivers' hours limits useless HAVING spent $1.4 million on research over the past 10 years, the American Bureau of Motor...

MURMURINGS are already heard and doubtless there will soon be loud outbursts about the parlous state of our roads and the...

The year's first commercial vehicle exhibition reveals just how far away we are from harmonisation in Europe, reports Steve...

Vehicle manufacturers are doing a lot, but operators would be wise not to let cost deter them from fitting several extras now...

welds on a cross-bar supported by two uprights and two bracers — the latter is potentially a more attractive proposition....

THE SAFE NEGOTIATION of road junctions is one of the most important aspects of driving and your learner driver will need...

'Comfortable' lighting is the key to better vision, Cibie tells Tim Blakemore. The word is no mistranslation, because the...

The P&O's Ted Haines sorts out facts fror the imponderables. John Durant review: his paper, given to the CIT, on through...

HEAVY goods drivers, particularly those on internaional hauls, are at last achieving recognition as top skilled tradesmen and...

These new IVECO Fiat models look better bets than the three-year-old diesel, report Bill Brock FOR MANY OPERATORS the...

latest product from Texpart elf-adhesive 'ultra-wide:" blind-spot mirror suitable )mmercial vehicles. It is cially suitable for...